Hardware and Hardware Rendering
Wednesday,15 August
4:15 ­ 6 pm
West Hall A

Chair
Wolfgang Heidrich
University of British Columbia


WireGL: A Scalable Graphics System for Clusters
Greg Humphreys
Matthew Eldridge
Ian Buck
Matthew Everett
Pat Hanrahan
Stanford University

Gordon Stoll
Intel Corporation

Keywords
Distributed Graphics, Graphics Systems, Parallel Computing


Lightning-2: A High-Performance Display Subsystem for PC Clusters
Gordon Stoll
Dan Patterson
Art Webb
Chris Caywood
Milton Taveira
Steve Hunt
Intel Corporation

Matthew Eldridge
Pat Hanrahan
Stanford University

Steven Berman
Richard Levy
Cornell University

Keywords
Graphics Hardware, Graphics Systems, Parallel Computing, Rendering Hardware, Rendering Systems


A User-Programmable Vertex Engine
Erik Lindholm
Mark J. Kilgard
Henry Moreton
NVIDIA Corporation

Keywords
Graphics Hardware, Graphics Systems


A Real-Time Procedural Shading System for Programmable Graphics Hardware
Kekoa Proudfoot
William R. Mark
Pat Hanrahan
Stanford University

Svetoslav Tzvetkov
NVIDIA Corporation

Keywords
Graphics Hardware, Graphics Systems, Languages, Rendering


Homomorphic Factorization of BRDFs for High-Performance Rendering

Michael D. McCool
Jason Ang
Anis Ahmad
University of Waterloo

Keywords
Illumination, Numerical Analysis, Reflectance and Shading Models, Rendering, Texture Mapping